Clasp for corsets



Is. J. NEWMAN. CLASP FOB CORSETS.

APPLICATION FILE D JUNE 14. I920.

Patented Jan. 3,1922.

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i ace see i Application filed June 14,

,Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. NEW AN,

a. citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented, a

new and useful Clasp for Corsets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates-to corsets'and par ticularlyto an improved clasp, and has for an object to provide a construction wherein a special hook is presented designed to answer unusual requirements found somev corsets. y

Another object in view is to provide'a hook for corsets which willnot only freely receive the lacing cord, but will in a certain. sense clamp the same against longitudinal movement when once properly positioned. A still further object, more specifically, is the provision of an improved hook for corsets wherein the lacing is caused to sub stantially straddle the retaining steel whereby there. will be a direct pull on opposite steels and opposite edges of the corset to which they aresecured when the lacers. are brought under proper tension.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of an improved hook and steel embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary front view showing part of a corset with the steel illustrated in Figure 1 arranged in position thereon.

Figure 3 is a section through Figure 2 on line 33, the same being on an enlarged Scale.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary edge view of part of the corset shown in Figure 2, the same illustrating the arrangement of one hook.

The present invention includes a special hook associated with a steel adapted for use on front lace corsets, as for instance the particular type of corset shown in my prior Patent No. 1,256,358 dated February 12 1918. In the construction of front lace corsets some means for accommodating the lacers must be provided, and in answering. these requirements different forms of hooks on the market have been used but without entire satisfaction. The ordinary hookas used on a shoe has been found to be objectionable on a corset as it allows the lacer Specification of Izetters Patent. Patented Jan 3, 1922 1920. Serial no. 338,835.

I to slide backandfforth therethrough; and

also has certain other objections, In order to provide the features ofa hook on a corset V and at the same time obviate the objectionable see-saw action ,of a sliding lacer. the hook has been evolved as sliownparticularly in Figures 1 and 3 in .theaccompanying drawing. From these figures: it will be observed that there isprovided a steel 1, which may be of any kind and formed with pairs of apertures2. These aperturesare designed to receive the turned in spursor .plates3 and 4 of the hook body 5,. which fits flatwise against the one faceof the. steel 1. The body 5 merges into a hookend 6, which is bent at so as to. extend in a curve a waym from the steel land merge intomaubstantially arc-shaped end section, which in turn merges into an outwardly flaring end 9. This outward flare is expressly designed for permitting easy access of the lacer without presenting objectionable projections. An oval shaped aperture 10 is provided in the hook member 6 and extends from one face of the steel 1 around to a point substantially in alignment with one edge of the steel as indicated in Figure 3. By this construction and arrangement it will be seen that the end that receives the lacers 12 is spaced away fromthe steel 1 at all points whereby the lacermay. in a certainsense, straddle the steel and in doing so is pushed somewhat into the aperture 10. The edges of the apertures act as pinching members and prevent any longitudinal movement of the lacer unless moved with some considerable pressure in a line substantially parallel with the edge of steel 1. The resistance to movement of the lacer is also assisted by the corners on the opposite edges 13 and 14: which pinch against the lacer by reason of the more or less sharp turning of the lacer against this part of the hook. From Figure 3 it will be noted that the hook is bent at 7 so as not to lie flat on the bottom of the steel; whereby the lacer 12 is permitted toroll'around the edge 15 ofthe steel and in a 'certain sense straddle the same, which coacts with the pinching of the corners 13 and 14 and the action of the oval opening 10 for preventing sliding of the lacer. When operating the lacer 12 for bringing the respective edges 15 and 16 of the corset 17 together, or as near together as possible, the lacers are crossed as shown in Figure 2 and forced beneath the first two hooks, after which they are pulled until said lowermost hooks are as near. together as necessary. The lacers are then crossed and passed [through the next hooks and the operation repeated.

This is. continued until the corset has been completely laced, after which it is tied. By reason of the particular shape of the hook after the two lacers have been placed in position there will be a flexibility between the respective edges and 16 of the corset because of the flexible nature of the 'lacers, but there will be little or no sliding movement of the lacers through the hooks and consequently there will be no appreciable and then bent into a hook in'the oppositedirection, said hook end fiaring'at its entrance, and formed with an oval aperture extending from near the entrance to near the center. I

2. A hook for corset steels comprising a body, wide compared with its length and V provided with means for securing the same a to said steel, and a hook end bent into a hook, said hook positioned to straddle said steel being formed with an oval shaped aperture extending from near the end thereof to nearthe center, said hook at the edges of said aperture being adapted to pinch a corset lacer when the latter is placed in the hook and is under tension for preventing slipping thereof.

3. A hook for a corset steel adapted to re; Y

ceive corset lacers comprising abody, and

a hook end oifset in one direction andthen bent into a hook in the opposite direction.

4. A hook for a corset steel adapted to receive a corset lacer comprising a body having bendable retaining spurs adapted to connect the body to said steel, and a hook end.

ofi'set inonedirection so as to space the same from said steel and then bent into a hook in the opposite" direction for receiving said lacer and causing the lacer .to straddle said steel.

SAMUEL J. NEWMAN. 

